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Have to make an operational decision. >> exactly so. and this is another example of that. and the question i think that this poses is, well, just how invasive, how intrusive should intelligence, law enforcement be when they have people on the radar, so to speak, but who perhaps havent met the evidentiary threshold for continued surveillance or an arrest or anything of that sort. and that is a -- thats a tough problem for this country. >> director clapper, appreciate your time. thank you. >> than...

The republican reaction to the white house response. how will republicans deal with this? now, sean duffy, congressman was on "new day" this morning, and he continued to talk about hillary clinton. he continued to talk about the fact that the focus should be somewhere else, even now that we have charges. >> thats the thing. ive heard from numerous sources that president trump has been stewing for months. hes been saying, why isnt the focus on hillary clinton a little bit more? and so this actual...

Next cycle, the next news cycle, but the president himself moved it into the cycle with that tweet at 8:00 in the morning yesterday, and then in the interview, he was asked about john kellys response. i want you to listen to what he said. >> he was so offended that a woman would be -- that somebody would be listening to that call. he was -- he actually couldnt believe it. actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not acceptable. >> so from the families perspective, thi...

He probably intends to do it for as long as its tentable. what john kelly has done successfully, you hear this inside and outside the white house is streamline what kind of information this president receives. trump is used to being able to have people come in and out of the oval office and put things on his desk and pick up the phone and call whoever he wants to call and john kelly is trying to clamp down on that. he has not had as much access to people he would like. and some of his close conf...

Good. good. thanks, mitch. >> health care is looking great. what a difference a half a year makes. that was president trump back in march praising senate majority lead leader mitch mcconnell. well, today after his candidate luther strange lost, hes stewing over a string of defeats. his seeming victory only coming when he works with house majority or minority leader nancy pelosi or chuck schumer, a fellow who speaks his language and eats chinese with him. hes openly venting about his frustration ...

Immigration restrictist, ted cruz warned you. he said he will be cutting deals with chuck schumer, this is who he is. >> true. someone whos really unhappy this morning, tara, is conservative congressman steve king of iowa. really unhappy. and making it very clear across twitter, hes saying this is going to blow up your base, mr. president. he is saying -- hes naming all the times that amnesty was pushed by republicans and democrats and failed and hes calling this amnesty from the president right...

Confirmed that white house counsel don mcgahn opposed sending it because he "believed i its angry, meandering tone was problematic." joiningis nahira mack and navid jamali and malcolm nance and sarah kinsor. what i find fascinate being this story and politico has a more ex-tensive piece it seems what happened is donald trump goes tout to bedminster, supposed to be playing golf with jim norman whatever his name is, greg norman, and instead it rains, and so instead he sits inside watching "fox & f...

Miller. hes a fire brand aide, one of the architects behind the travel ban and some of to strict immigration proposals. the president had been stewing for days if not weeks about fbi director comey in particular that he would not say publicly what the president said he had been telling him privately. that the president himself was not under investigation in terms of the russian interference in last years election. he -- that was the thesis of the behind the letter, like "the times" we have not s...

Over it this week, because in that interview not only did steve bannon contradict the president completely on north korea saying there was no military solution after the president had been tweeting he would respond with fire and fury to north korea, he was acting like he was the president. steve bannon told this reporter at the american prospect he could make personnel changes at the state department and that infuriated the president. hes been stewing over that in recent weeks. like you said, th...

Purposes, whether its for diplomatic purposes, whatever it may be, thats a problem and so, yes, if were losing 700-plus personnel -- look, this is not something new. putin and his cronies have been stewing over the disparity in numbers between their personnel in the sxus our personnel in russia for some time. i suspect theyve been looking for an opportunity to do this. its not good from an operational perspective for us. we will adjust. this game has been going on for as long as youve had diplom...